Does your year-end or year-ahead planning include a staff retreat with team-building activities? Terrific! Does your team-building plan include using an assessment tool that illuminates…
Read More What can assessments tell us about who we are? It’s complicated.Category: Personal Narrative
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Family Ties: The Last Supper
July 17, 2022—Drawn together by ritual, almost by instinct, we gathered around our kitchen table, perhaps one last time, for a family lunch. Zach, our…
Read More Family Ties: The Last SupperOrdinary Time: Pandemic Reflection by Martha Park
This graphic essay originally appeared in Volume I, Issue III of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in July 2022. Funding for this project made possible by the Tennessee Arts Commission’s…
Read More Ordinary Time: Pandemic Reflection by Martha ParkHuntsville, Alabama: Let’s Rocket
Words and Photos by Ken Billett Along a tree-lined brick sidewalk, a stylized Darth Vader loomed over R2-D2, both metal sculptures securely bolted to an…
Read More Huntsville, Alabama: Let’s RocketFlowers and Writing: A Paperback Reflection
This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue III of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in July 2022. Authors of books get all the glory. I understand why. There’s…
Read More Flowers and Writing: A Paperback ReflectionJust Another Day
August 30, 2022, around 8:45 a.m.— “So, that’s a good question…in fact, that’s a great question.” My oncologist looked down at his notes and then…
Read More Just Another Day“The Silence Came:” A Pandemic Reflection
This story originally appeared as in Volume I, Issue III of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in July 2022. I remember looking at the television as the anchor man…
Read More “The Silence Came:” A Pandemic ReflectionWhen it comes to parenting trends, who’s right and who’s wrong?
By Jennifer Balink From bookstore shelves to TikTok, tips and tricks for parents are everywhere we look. Which is great, because children don’t come with…
Read More When it comes to parenting trends, who’s right and who’s wrong?Tidal Wave
I’m mad. My schedule says I’m supposed to be writing a 1200 word humor story. It has sat on my schedule for five days now,…
Read More Tidal WaveCats! (Not the musical, but the real thing)
Tawny stretched, yawned, and then mewed out her version of Good Morning. She’s lying on top of an old garden bench inside our carport, comfortably…
Read More Cats! (Not the musical, but the real thing)